Plautus Quotes

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

Modesty should accompany youth.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

To snatch the worm from the trap.

Practice yourself what you preach.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

Fire is next akin to smoke.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

Courage is its own reward.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

That least pleases us which is most urged on us.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.